Saturday, March 16, 2024

Three Handed Playlist

Screenshot from the movie Words and Music where young Mickey Rooney is standing behind Tom Drake, who sits at a piano, while Mickey sings. Tom has a wry smile and an raised eyebrow.
Best forehead crinkles in Hollywood!

Coffeetime, March 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Somethin’ Cute / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Chet Baker / Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Fine and Dandy / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Will You, Won’t You Be My Baby? / Victor / Chicago 11.23.28
The Rhythmic Eight / She’s a Great Great Girl / Zonophone / 9.20.28 / vocal = Maurice Elwin /
Billy Valentine Trio / Three Handed Woman / Decca / 1950
Irma Curry / Don Elliott with Irma Curry / No Spring This Year / Columbia / 1.62

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 2
Dupree Bolton / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 6.30.63
Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Eddie South / Sentimental Rhapsody / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1956
Fred Astaire / The Piccolino / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.15.35 / with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra; from the RKO movie Top Hat
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / I Wanna Be a Brat / Varsity / LA 1940
The El Dorados / Oh What a Girl / Vee-Jay / 11.6.57 
José Feliciano / Feliciano! / Nena Na Na / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1968

set 3
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Amyable / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Two Songs / Dawn / 6.12.56
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Scotty Boo / King / 7.16.56
Gene Ammons / Hot Stuff / Prestige / 8.14.51
The Marshall Brothers / I Didn’t Know / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 
Evelyn Knight & The Jesters / Chicory Chick / V-Disc 566B; Decca / 1945 / with Bob Haggart’s Band
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Jimmy Rowles / Let's Get Acquainted with Jazz…For People Who Hate Jazz / Cheeta’s for Two / Tampa / Hollywood 6.20.58
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Night Watch / United Artists / LA 1958
Stéphane Grappelli / ’S Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
Anita O’Day / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.26.45  / with the King Cole Trio
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake 
Little Milton / More and More / Checker / Chicago 10.67
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atco [Carla] / 1965